TLC

September 22nd is my birthday and this past year has been such a wonderful one for me personally. I feel like I’ve really grown and I finally feel as if my life has purpose. I’m not even going to hide my age, I’ve earned my 37 years, and I’ve never felt so incredibly strong and confident before in my life. I’m hoping for even more growth and strength this coming year.

This coming year will also be my 10th year blogging about Second Life. Blogging is such a satisfying and rewarding hobby for me and I don’t know if I ever would have started it if it wasn’t for Second Life. I am so thankful for finding this virtual world that has brought me so much joy and has been such a wonderful creative outlet for me.

To celebrate my birthday I wanted to give you guys, my readers, a gift. I was lucky enough to have a very talented designer, Erratic Rain, donate five L$1000 gift cards for a giveaway for my readers, thank you Erratic!

To enter my birthday giveaway, for a chance to be one of the 5 lucky readers to win a L$1000 gift card for erratic, all you have to do is leave a comment in this blog post with the following information:

Your full Second Life login name (not display name)

What do you do in your Second Life? Are you a blogger? Creator? Shopper? Explorer? Share with me what keeps you logging in and don’t forget to leave a link to your blog/store if you have one!

The giveaway will end on Friday, September 29th at 6am SLT and I will announce the winners shortly after that, so you have about a week to enter. At 6am SLT, I will use the Pick Giveaway Winner wordpress plugin to randomly choose 5 winners and I will then announce the winners’ names in the comments of this post and drop the gift cards on them inworld soon afterwards. Good luck to everyone that enters!

I’m also embedding a video below in which I’ve given you a bit of a tour of the erratic mainstore and a glimpse at this bento sweater erratic released this month. So have a look if you haven’t had the chance to visit erratic before.

I’m also planning to live stream on youtube today for my birthday! I plan to visit the new grid-wide experience in Second Life: Tyrah & the Curse of the Magical Glytches. As I explore that experience I will live stream it to my youtube channel. I plan to do this at 9am PST on my birthday. If you’d like to join me in this experience, meet me at the portal at 9am PST! Don’t forget to view the tutorial video for this experience ahead of time, so you know what to do when you get there!

I also have a few updates on some other topics I wanted to talk to you guys about.

Sansar

I blogged about Sansar when it first went into public beta on July 31st. Since then, I’ve been doing a weekly show in Sansar with Draxtor called Atlas Hopping. In each episode we try to visit a few experiences in Sansar and also talk about the latest and upcoming updates to the virtual world. You can watch all the episodes of Atlas Hopping so far in my youtube playlist.

I was also recently asked my thoughts about Sansar by Eclipse Magazine so I shared what my impressions have been thus far and why I enjoy it. Click over to read my response on page 180, but also check out the rest of the Sansar responses starting on page 176.

The Bloggies Awards

The Bloggies are brought to you by the Blogger & Vlogger Network. They recognize key contributors in the blogging and vlogging community. I had blogged about it a couple of weeks ago, asking you guys to nominate your favorite bloggers and vloggers and even though I encouraged you guys not to nominate me, some of you still did lol. It made me smile, thank you so much. I really do appreciate you guys being so supportive of my hobby, it makes it all the more fulfilling. You guys nominated me in the following 5 categories: Best Destination Blogger, Best Tutorial Blogger, Best Narrative Blogger, Unboxing Vlogger of the Year and Best News Blogger. Thank you again for all the nominations! <3

Second Life Survey – Four Bridges Project

millay Freschi (Amy Cross in the real world) is conducting research into the Second Life experience as part of her PhD dissertation at the University of Maine. She has set up an anonymous survey of 48 questions about your relationship with your avatar, your Second Life relationships and group memberships, as well as some demographic information. There is nothing involved that reveals your location or identity. millay founded The Four Bridges Project in SL and will host a concert for the community in January.
She wants to show what, if any, effect our avatars have on our other selves and how this might affect choices and decisions that we make in both worlds. Your participation will be appreciated; the survey will be available until October 15.
Here is a link to the online survey that should take about 30 minutes of your time: Second Life Survey – Four Bridges Project

Thanks again for all of the support this past decade, I really appreciate it. I will be doing another giveaway soon for all of my youtube subscribers once I hit 10000 subscribers on youtube, so if you haven’t subscribed as of yet, click over and hit that subscribe button now! Thank you! <3

Last week’s Monday meme was a bit heavy, so I thought I should make this week’s light and entertaining. Meme Instructions: Copy and paste the following questions and answers to your post, delete my answers and input your own. Don’t forget to leave a link to your post in the comments so others can come […] Continue reading →

Welcome to my big fake Second Life Wedding! No avatars were actually wed during the process of this post. We are both very much single! Cory Edo of Trompe Loeil released her Raleigh Wedding Set for FaMESHed this February and it is so spectacular! The creative Mr. CrazyChef asked me if I would like to […] Continue reading →

It’s Friday but this isn’t a Friday Find post. I am planning to do one later today, possibly tomorrow. I missed my Friday Find post last week so this week is going to be extra long because I have lots to share. So make sure to drop by again later! A big thank you to […] Continue reading →

Botgirl called me Mrs. Robinson earlier today and that sort of inspired this post, even though I am completely innocent and have even sworn off men for the rest of my life (or until I meet a really hot guy). But yeah, I did have fun dressing Manberry up like a schoolboy and photoshopping a […] Continue reading →

(click here for a raw shot) I went to a new sim, Pinoy Hideout, earlier today to explore and look around. The sim was designed by the talented Neva Crystall. The owner of the sim is Lovelykitten Resident and there is also a photo contest for those that like to explore and take images. Even though I […] Continue reading →

(click here to see raw shot) Tonight I watched the sunset at the beach. Not my first time and definitely won’t be my last. There is something to say about the sun disappearing behind the horizon leaving nothing but a dark silence. It was immensely relaxing and just what I needed. I am using a few […] Continue reading →

Last month I released a standard second life shape directly to my marketplace store. The only reason I did that is because people kept asking about my shape and so I thought I would experiment and see what I could come up with. I didn’t expect to, but I sold quite a few of them. […] Continue reading →

Real life friends dragged me dancing this weekend and I had so much fun that I felt like going dancing in Second Life as well. This time I went to the Woods Club because my friend, Blazin Aubret (she works there) has invited me to come a few times in the past, so I thought I’d go […] Continue reading →

Ever since the first time I blogged this serpent pose prop last year, at least once a week I get someone googling “serpent sex” and ending up on my blog. Is that really a thing? Or is it some weird sexual position? Do people actually do that? How though? Ok don’t tell me how, I […] Continue reading →

Recently Google announced that there are no more restrictions on what name you can use on Google+ therein allowing Second Life residents and others that use pseudonyms online to use the service under any name they please. I was extremely pleased to hear of this decision, but a little disheartened that Facebook doesn’t adapt a […] Continue reading →

This month’s theme for TLC (The Liaison Collaborative) is Dangerous Liaisons. I’m still wearing the thigh holster from Plethora that I blogged a few days ago. This time I added the gun and pose from the Femme Fatale set from Le Poppycock to add to the bad-ass look. I dunno though, I think my face […] Continue reading →

Photos Nikolaidis released this really fun dress today and I wanted to dress it all up with tattoos and my new hair from Red Mint that I picked up at Hair Fair. I actually poked Mr. Jefferson to give me names of new tattoo places and he dropped a bunch of landmarks on me. Letis […] Continue reading →

I leave for vacation tomorrow so this is my final post till next month. It may look like I’m sad from the picture but I’m actually pretty excited/nervous. I just did this pic for fun because Damien Fate has updated his FATEeyes and they now have a very cool tear animation, which you can see […] Continue reading →

Definition of photobomb: To hop into a photo being taken at the last moment or anytime the people/things in the background of the image hijack the original focus. Meme Instructions: Go out exploring the grid and find someone to photobomb, or share a picture or anecdote of a time that you were photobombed in Second […] Continue reading →